Tuesday, January 13th
It’s Rubber Ducky Day
1888: The National Geographic Society was formed
1928: Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public demonstration of television
1927: The Wham-O Company began producing “Pluto Platters” They later changed the name to “Frisbee”
1968: Johnny Cash gave his legendary Folsom Prison performance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Folsom_Prison
1999: Michael Jordan announced his retirement from the NBA. He would return in 2001 after playing Minor League Baseball. Even MJ had trouble hitting a curveball
1982: Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists
2015: A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii causes widespread panic
2021: Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the storming of the Capitol one week prior
News: Couple arrested on felony drug charges after Alexander County traffic stop…Taylorsville Police arrest two overnight for breaking and entering…Lenoir man charged with drug trafficking…Alexander County School Board meets…Former State Supreme Court justice from Wilkes County dies
Weather: Sunny and 55 today
Sports: Cougar Wrestling at home tonight…AC Basketball travels to McDowell…Steelers punished by Texans…All four Division Round games are not set in NFL…Canes suffer overtime loss in Hockeytown…NASCAR go back to :The Chase”
Happy Birthday: Bob Baffert, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Dempsey, Orlando Bloom, Liam Hemsworth, Connor McDavid
Is that a train ? https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/passenger-forced-flee-self-driving-001247009.html
Word of the Day: statesider [steyt-sahy-der] a person who lives in any part of the continental United States or conterminous United States, rather than in Hawaii or a U.S. territory. First recorded in 1935–40. “She runs a small farm in Guam, but for two months a year she’s a statesider in Kentucky.”
Quote of the Day: “He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”… Thomas Jefferson